Freedom of Speech? Not this campaign year...

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61-year-old librarian threatened with arrest at McCain town hall for holding sign
07/07/2008 @ 8:48 pm
Filed by RAW STORY

When Republican presidential candidate John McCan held a town hall meeting in Denver on July 7, 61-year-old librarian Carol Kreck showed up in the plaza outside holding a sign reading "McCain=Bush." She was asked by security to leave and then told by a police officer that she would be charged with trespassing on city property if she did not give up her sign.

When Kreck refused, she was ticketed, escorted off the premises, and threatened with arrest if she tried to return. "Why is that offensive?" Kreck said of her sign. "Why would Republicans who voted for Bush find it offensive?"


This story originally reported by Progress Now Action.